The EE braggers thread!!!

[maryhysong]

I want to thank everyone for commenting on my dilemma; I'm off to bed in a minute so I won't quote everyone. But thanks for the % info on the inheritance of the blue egg gene; I was thinking it worked somewhat along those lines and for this breeding line I am after pure blue and didn't want to mix everything up with a brown gene and finding out a year from now the boy just throws brown eggers.

I also want a better body type, with wider hips for more capacity and length of laying life. And that extends to feather quality also. Can't be comfy with a naked back, winter or summer.

Since I've been hatching my own chicks I have noticed that some things seem to take more after mom and some more after dad. For instance a hen with a lousy comb seems to pass it to all her chicks,especially the girls, so I can see all the chicks getting moms body shape, while coloring seems to be coming from both parents.

I do have two pure Ameraucauna pullets that have not begun to lay yet. I have toyed with the idea of finding a roo to go with them and may still do so.

My grown EE boy that I have kept is not that wide in the butt, (he is wider than those hens tho) but he has a great chest on him. I currently have him with a different set of hens so will see how those combinations turn out. Since I sell eggs at my farmer's market I won't mind having some more layers, but I definitely won't breed from the original three hens again and will keep my eyes peeled for some wider girls also.

 

[Peach2u]

anyone see any pure white EEs before?

This is my pure white EE no beard. Roo is a {splash maran x silver EE lays blue eggs}. I don't know which hen she came from. But it had to be a blue or lite green egg because that is all I set this year. I have never had a pure white. She is my first. I have had a few splash male and female last year and this year I have 1 splash 3 week old sex unknown hoping for a pullet. The other one is a boy beside her. He is very pretty but he and his 4 brothers must go.

 

[chickletteSarge]

This is my pure white EE no beard. Roo is a {splash maran x silver EE lays blue eggs}. I don't know which hen she came from. But it had to be a blue or lite green egg because that is all I set this year. I have never had a pure white. She is my first. I have had a few splash male and female last year and this year I have 1 splash 3 week old sex unknown hoping for a pullet. The other one is a boy beside her. He is very pretty but he and his 4 brothers must go.

we got a trio, the roo is a salt-n-pepper lookin boy! I want my DD to start her own line of EEs! thinkin after they start laying ill throw them all together with my older golden EEs!

 

[Little Wing]

anyone see any pure white EEs before?

I have a SBEL pure white roo with a pea comb if you want it.

 

[chickletteSarge]

did you see the cockrel I got to go with them? I plan to breed them along with some of powders pullets!
do you have any of them lavs available? I may sneak over and pick up a couple when they are!

 

[CGinJCMO]

Yep
Quote: I'm one of them that has a White hen. I just hatched out eggs from her with blackish colored rooster. One of the offspring is white with cream feathers coming in and the rest are various shades of black/brown. I guess that means her white is recessive.

CG

 

[chickletteSarge]

the person I got them from said the roo they have spits white pullets and b&w cockrels... if they breed true I wouldn't mind working on their type! maybe put some color in them!

 

[kara1015]

Here are my 5 week old babies. The first 3 were hatchery sexed, but I'm pretty sure I have 2 Roos! What do ya'll think??

Pullet?

Roo!?

Roo?

Unsure on the next 2, they are twins...

 

[Peneliva]

5 weeks.

any ideas on how she might look and if she is a she?

Name ideas?

 

[ChickNmamma]

Here are my 5 week old babies. The first 3 were hatchery sexed, but I'm pretty sure I have 2 Roos! What do ya'll think??

Pullet?





Roo!?




Roo?




Unsure on the next 2, they are twins...

Here are my guesses - I think you are pretty close:

#1 - watch this one. It doesn't have the classic black/white that my boys did - but I don't like those black/white feathers on the front. Looks girly for now though.
#2 - I think you are right - roo.
#3 - haven't had one this color yet - but I don't see anything that says boy right now
#4 & #5 are both girl coloring. Notice how it is even over their whole body and doesn't have different colors in "patches"? The only "patches" a girl usually gets is right around the neck area like a collar. That's what I am seeing on these.

So my guess is 3 girls, 1 boy and one ?